Friday, February 27, 2015

The midday heat of Niger’s Sahel chased a Tuareg mother and daughter under
their leather tent for a nap, the mother on her bed, her daughter on the sand. Their arms are dyed dark blue from shiny
pieces of clothing, like the girl's indigo head dress, whose color comes off as
if from carbon paper.

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Plantain, manioc, sugarcane, coconuts, and pineapples are changing hands
in Quibdo, at an Afro-American market on the Atrato River in Colombia’s Choco,
a rain forest region and department bordering the Pacific Coast.

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Plantain, manioc; sugarcane, coconuts, and pineapples are changing hands in Quibdo, at an Afro-American market on the Atrato River in Colombia’s Choco, a rain
forest region and department borderingthe Pacific Coast.

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

In Asaita, a village of Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, a pack camel tied
to a dilapidated truck awaits its Danakil nomad master patiently. The man is buying
a few things in one of the shops surrounding the central square. The houses are
all built of lava blocks.

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Saturday, February 7, 2015

The Danakil Depression, part
of the Great Rift Valley, is the world’s hottest region. It’s an inferno of
active volcanoes, black lava fields as far as the eyes can see, vast salt lakes,
and sulfur sources whose oxidation from yellow to green and brown are among
this phenomenon’s few colors. And yet, it is of gripping beauty.

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Friday, February 6, 2015

The Wodaabe nomads of Niger’s Sahel treat and love their zebus like pets,
giving each of them a name. They raise them for status, not for the butcher. Which
is why this cow acts like a dog, licking its owner. Like dogs, too, Wodaabe
zebus follow their owners on the march like children following a teacher. They cause no need to be prodded from
behind.

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While the Sahara Desert’s sun shines brightly outside, a street of
Algeria’s Ghardaia Oasis is shaded by wide pieces of fabric stretching between
walls. The blue sky bathes the street in its own color.

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Monday, February 2, 2015

In Algeria’s Kerzaz Oasis, a Harratin man pulls water from a deep well with
a bucket balanced by poles weighed down with stones at their ends. He pours the
water into a metallic canal that irrigates the palm grove surrounding him.

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